AMD A10-7850K vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1343 points

1361 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2540 points

2723 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1015 points

0.30% slightly better multitasking score

1012 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

973 points

975 points

0.21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.30 points

32.79 points

101% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

42% slightly higher clock speed

2.60 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

860th of 1,089

851st of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A10-7850K vs Core i7-6498DU comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6498DU beats the A10-7850K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7850K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A10-7850K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6498DU. The info from our database shows that the A10-7850K has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6498DU

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A10-7850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.